Enhanced oxygen mass transfer in an external loop airlift bioreactor using a packed bed

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1067-1072

  Nikakhtari, Hossein ^a   Hill, Gordon A ^b  

^a SAHAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FERMENTATION; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; PACKED BEDS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BUBBLE SIZE; EXTERNAL LOOP AIRLIFT BIOREACTOR (ELAB); SPATIAL MODEL; WELL-MIXED VESSELS;

BIOREACTORS;

NYLON; OXYGEN;

AIRLIFT REACTOR; BIOREACTOR; MASS TRANSFER; PACKED BED;

ACCURACY; AERATION; AIRLIFT REACTOR; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; FERMENTATION TECHNIQUE; FLUID FLOW; GAS; IMMOBILIZED CELL; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PACKED BED REACTOR; PREDICTION; SIMULATION;

EID: 13544258627     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie0494925     Document Type: Article

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